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David Schweikert: “The data is just crashing on us since the pandemic, the…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 22:02

And in some ways it sickens me. But that's the reality we have to sort of mechanically deal with. And then the statistics that The data is just crashing on us since the pandemic, the curve of our brothers and sisters who are getting sicker and sicker. And now I'm dealing with some of the data we're looking at of those moving into their retirement benefits being also much sicker and trying to figure out how we finance that. (22:02–22:15)

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Asserts that health data shows increasing sickness since the pandemic.

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